Victoria Vanstone

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One for the Road: The Quit Drinking Podcast · 8 Years Sober and I Realized Sobriety Hadn’t Fixed Me | Victoria Vanstone · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

And I think my light, Dave, has

been on red.

all the time uh that I shouldn't be going to things, but because I have put myself in a position where I thought I needed to prove a point.

I kept on going, which was detrimental to my own physical and mental health actually.

Thank you, David.

I have never ever felt like drinking.

I mean, there's there's moments because it was such a relief for me when I gave up.

It was like, oh my God, I never have to do this fucking thing that I've hated for so long, I never need to do it again.

There wasn't a struggle there.

I mean, there was the moderation struggle and the lead up and the anxiety and all of those things that we go through.

But once the decision was made for me,

It was like a light was switched on and I was like, oh, thank God.

I never, ever need to go back there.

Why would I ever give myself that level of anxiety to the point where I'm lying on my bed, you know, with my finger on my pulse, wondering if I'm gonna die or not?

Why would I ever do that to myself again?

So there was such a huge sense of relief that the act of drinking uh would never ever appeal to me again.

Also, I've completely over-educated.

Myself about it, which probably isn't a really good idea because it does t it does turn your head a little bit, quite honestly.

But so I don't have that so much.

I have fleeting moments where I remember why I used to drink.

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